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in France and England. The re^t of the chapter, so far as I know, are
passing an uneventful summer.
A t our April meeting with Lida Moore McClain, Alice Calhoun Cox
( Mrs. H . M . ) was elected president, and Dorothy Brown, treasurer. We
were delighted to welcome, at our May meeting with Ailcy Kyle Peet, Mrs.
Frank Bane, of Kappa, whose husband has been recently appointed by
the city as Director of Public Welfare. The June meeting with our new
president, Alice Cox, was held at her charming little home near Fountain
( ity.
The social event of June, according to our thinking, was the marriage
of Louise Wiley and Oscar Wood McLeary, both of the English depart-
ment of the University of Tennessee. We wish them every happiness,
and are delighted beyond measure that we shall keep them with us.
No alumnae letter would be complete without an account of the cradle
roll. I have an addition to make, but regret that I know neither the name
or the sex of the new member. Helen Shea Sheridan ( M r s . D. C.) is
the proud mother. Genevieve Shea Reddick is also in town with her
young son. Elizabeth MacDonald McClamrock regales us at every meet-
ing with an account of Rosie's doings—from sucking her mother's range
with the mistaken idea that it is food, to learning to swim in the river at
Sunshine. But I'm sure you will all take off your hats to Kathleen
Vaughan's baby, who recently made the trip from New Mexico to Tcnne-
see in a car with a prairie schooner top. and had her daily bath in a
bucket!
ELEANOR BURKE. for work and finallv decided that work at the Children's Hospital would
No letter. LYNCH BURG ALUMNAE
WASHINGTON ALUMNAE
Since last our chapter was heard from, much has happened. We have
lost two of our active members, Dorothy Bowling and Margaret Kutner.
Dorothy was married to Robert Swan Townsend, a Delta Tau Delta
from Dartmouth, on the twenty-eighth of June. I t was a lovely wedding,
and Dorothy made a beautiful bride. Rose Bowling was maid of honor
and Charlie Louise Howard of Bozeman, Mont., and Mary Gibbs Smeth-
urst, of New York, were the bridesmaids. Dorothy's brother Joe was
one of the groomsmen.
Margaret Penn White and Margaret Kutner were the only A. O. IPs
among the guests, for Mollie Shoemaker was at the seashore with friends
and Pauline Hobson was enjoying a vacation at her home near Memphis,
Tenn.
Dorothy's one regret was that none of her sisters f r o m her native
chapter, Alpha Phi, were present. A f t e r a week's sojourn in Delaware
she sailed July 5th for continental Europe, on her honeymoon—to be gone
two years.
Margaret Kutner surprised us, by telling several of the girls at Dor-
othy's wedding, that she was engaged. She certainly kept her love affair
quiet. When she told us when she was going we were very much thrilled
and excited. For, she leaves sometime the last of September or the first
of October f o r South Africa to be married to Phillip Ritter, who is en-
gaged in the automobile business there. Margaret is visiting her mother
in Baltimore until she sails. This is the culmination of a romance that
began when Margaret was taking a post graduate course at the University
of Berlin. We all wish her great happiness.
We have lost three members in the last ten months. First Betty
Farrington, who went to Honolulu, then Dorothy, who is now in Europe,
and Margaret is leaving us f o r South Africa. We miss them all terribly.
The remaining four are wondering just where they are going, for we
seem to be destined to travel.
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Mollie Shoemaker, our president, is planning a vacation that includes
Maine. Woods Hole, Mass., and the shores of New Jersey. She leaves
about the fifteenth of this month, August.
Rose Bowling leaves about the same time f o r New York to join
friends on their boat. From there she will cruise with them up the Hudson
to Albany, through to Lake Champlain and on to Lake George.
So far Margaret Penn White and her husband have not decided just
where they are going- to spend their vacation. However, nearly every
week-end finds them at one of the nearby resorts.
We are all working hard and "working" our friends for the National
Fund for we are so small we can not accomplish any philanthropic work
ourselves to amount to anything and so we work for the fund instead.
ROSE BOWLING.
PHILADELPHIA ALUMNAE
Last January we made a change in the time of our meetings, in order
to make it possible for girls with young A. O. n's to come out more
often. One month we meet at Psi's house on the first Monday evening;
the next, one of the girls entertains us at her home on the first Saturday
afternoon. We thought it would make the meetings more interesting to
have a little bridge mixed in with our business but so far we haven't had
time for any bridge. .
In June we had our last meeting of the year at Gladys Zulzers in
Oakmont. Natalie Collins, our next year's president, presided, and we
made our plans for the fall. I t was decided to continue our National
work which we began last term. A committee investigated several fields
give the best results; so, all last spring, the girls who could spare the
time worked there Tuesday and Thursday afternoons in the clinics, pre-
paring the children for their examinations—weighing them, writing up their
histories, etc. The hours spent there were credited to A . O. n.
On April 13th. Psi chapter celebrated its birthday at the house, and
each class gave a stunt: all of which proved extremely amusing, especially
1920*5 version of the courtship of Sylvia Sutcliffe by a sailor during the
W a r ' \ V e held a card party at the Bellevue-Stratford on Saturday after-
noon. May 10, to help our national work and the building fund f o r a
house for Psi chapter; and on May 22, 23 and 24, we held a rummage sale
for the same purposes.
For the past two years we have had a picnic sometime during the
summer as a sort of "get together" for the girls who are still in the
city; so, this year, we planned to have our picnic at Valley Green, along
the Wissahickon Creek, in spite of the fact it had been raining almost
continually for the preceding two months. As usually happens in such a
case, the "weather was lovely until five o'clock, the time for us to be on
our way, when it simply poured; however, six brave individuals gathered
together at St. Martins Station and decided the weather should not ruin
the party, so they had the picnic anyway at Eleanor Rohner Spencer's
At Psi's birthday party on Palm Sunday, Sylvia Sutcliffe appeared
with her five pounds of chocolates, announcing her engagement to Dr.
Aldrich Clements Crowe, of Dora, Alabama.
A t the Spring Dance on Mav 24. Margaret Miles announced her en-
gagement to M r . George Wood Headly. of Jenkintown, Pennsylvania
Charlotte Easbv announced her engagement to Bill Graves, l A t ,
one of Penn's star athletes, early in June, and was married the day atter
commencement, when she received her Ph.D. in Psychology.
Gladys Zulzer announced her engagement at the picnic to Dr Harry
Gardner, of Mount Vernon, New York; it is understood she intends beinjr
married in January.